Sentencing, district judge Richard Williams said: “You could not bring yourself, it seems, to admit this offence and have shown absolutely no remorse for it.

“The victim was vulnerable because he had diminished capacity to defend himself after his glasses were knocked off.

“This offence would normally result in you going to prison.

“However, I did not conduct the trial and in this case the justices that did formed the view that they were considering a community order and if there had been time yesterday they would have made one.”

Bartkevicius was also given a restraining order not to contact the prosecution witnesses.